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>reverse-domain name

Why do people keep replicating this terrible design decision? It puts the lowest-entropy part of the name at the beginning, so that you have to parse (or type) the maximum number of characters before you get a unique specification. Try tab-completing a "flatpak run" command sometime.

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If you mention tab-completing, if starting with the detailest component it wonʼt work at all because of context search problems. If you press something like "alice<Tab>", in deepest-first order it will have to search the whole tree which could contain millions of entities. Worse than, some subtrees may be dynamically loaded during the completion request.

To mitigate senseless tree top listing, IDEs propose a bunch of means like context-related hints or unpacking forms like "o.e.t" to "org.example.test".

You might be interested in https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab

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